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Triablogue: Did Paul believe in the virgin birth?
C.J. Cornthwaite recently produced a video that's partly about the subject .
Triablogue: Luke 3:38 And The Virgin Birth
The reference to Adam as "the son of God" in Luke 3:38 is unusual.
Triablogue: Early Extrabiblical Sources On Jesus' Childhood
It's sometimes argued that the infancy narratives were added to Matthew and/or Luke sometime after the documents were originally published, ...
Triablogue: If Jesus was born outside Bethlehem, would the ancient sources be so unsupportive of that conclusion?
Critics of the Bethlehem birthplace often act as if they're confident that Jesus wasn't born there or that he was born in Nazareth instead.
Triablogue: The Value Of Geographical Issues In The Christmas Context
I wrote a post a few years ago about a geographical argument for prophecy fulfillment related to Christmas .
Triablogue: Two Important Verses For Framing The Chronology Of Jesus' Childhood
The first is more commonly discussed, but is sometimes neglected.
Triablogue: Points To Make In Support Of A Traditional Christian View Of Jesus' Childhood
A lot depends on the audience you're addressing.
Triablogue: Abraham In Matthew 1 And The Virgin Birth
One of the problems with the popular claim that the concept of a virgin birth was borrowed from paganism is that it would be so easy for any...
Triablogue: Why are the women in Matthew's genealogy included?
There are ongoing disagreements about why Matthew refers to Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Bathsheba in Matthew 1:3-6.
Triablogue: Christmas Resources 2025
Since Jesus' childhood spanned so many years and so many issues are involved, there's no quick and easy way to address everything.
Triablogue: They Would Have Died To Pray As We Do
In addition to being grateful for prayer, we should be grateful for the types of prayer we can offer: And when we look back, we have so m...
Triablogue: How Often The Church Fathers "Demeaned" Mary
Boniface Ramsey, in his translation of the sermons of Maximus of Turin, refers to passages in which Maximus "demeans" Mary (The Sermons Of S...
Triablogue: Implicit Exclusions Of Baptismal Regeneration In Early Christian Literature
As I discussed in another post , we find baptismal regeneration contradicted in a large number and variety of ways in the extrabiblical sour...
Triablogue: How Later Church Fathers Disagree With Earlier Ones
Sometimes a disagreement is more obvious, such as the comments of a later church father who explicitly refers to his disagreement with the p...
Triablogue: How strong is the Christian argument against polygamy?
Polygamy has been getting some attention lately in response to a pastor's announcement that he's married a second wife.
Triablogue: Encouragement To Keep Writing
We should be involved in both oral and written discussions with people, and both have advantages and disadvantages.
Triablogue: What originally attracted people to platforms like YouTube and Twitter?
They've changed since they originated, and we need to distinguish between what these platforms are offering today and what they offered in t...
Triablogue: The Popularity Of Being Overly Negative About The Internet
Since it's so popular to be highly negative about the internet, often to the point of saying nothing or far too little about the many positi...
Triablogue: What should Christians do with things like the internet and social media platforms?
More than 1500 years ago, Augustine expressed some of his reasons for preferring a written debate over an oral one:
Triablogue: Why is there so much neglect of the argument from prophecy?
It's widely neglected both in terms of quantity and quality.